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Helmholtz (discovery of slow speed of nerve trans="trms">mission) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “="trms">present state” of perception is deployed within a temporally extended physiological set of events


19th century ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the essence of human life ceased to be something re="trms">presentable in the tabular space of classical re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>=/= human life understood in terms of it's existence in time, of functions and energies that un="trms">folded and developed outside the ='strcls'>**immediacy of classical visibility='strcls'>**


='strcls'>*the conditioned reflex='strcls'>*
a ="trms">chimerical notion of the western ="trms">imagination in the 20th century

reflex (central cerebral process, onset of stimulus ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> preparation of motor ="trms">response)
="lsts lst1">•one of the ways in which attention was ="trms">positioned within knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of human behavior
='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new forms of sensory experience outside of (various myth of) organic wholeness of subjectivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinction between “="trms">natural” ='and'>& “artificial” sensation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ='mywrk'>my work in WIELS ="trms">bestiary characters='lgc'>: what was individual experience in middle ages='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•practical recon="trms">figuration of behavior ='lgc'>+ possibility of external ="trms">intervention and control
='lgc'>=/= Dewey's (galvanic image of) subject in a perpetual sensory ="trms">interface with the ="trms">world='lgc'> = un="trms">interrupted mass motion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unity of activity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{='strcls'>*continuity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==sustain='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an ideal of unity and wholeness ='lgc'>=/= dis="trms">integration of individual experience, ='strcls'>*disconnected ="trms">nature of reality='strcls'>*='lgc'>}

(domain of experience in ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list life="trms">world='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•industrial production
="lsts lst1">•="trms">spectacular condonation
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological ="trms">modernization
="lsts lst1">•rational, ="trms">social, managerial control

(apperceptive experience of) anticipation, ="trms">memory, and preparation for future actions

(halfway ="trms">modernist Dewey didn't consider) breaks in perception might also have the capacity for ='strcls'>*revivifying or expanding the limits of thought or cognitive awareness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- and today 2020 many don't consider our contemporary media culture has this capacity='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what if our fragmented ="trms">nature is one of the forms the discontinuous ="trms">nature of reality can be apprehended='qstn'>?

celestial camera obscura

Dewey was deeply ="trms">interested in practical ways of mind-body unity
rhythm, eurhythmy
alexander ="trms">technique


unwavering model of pure contemplation
“pure knowing subject='lgc'> = forget your own personality, lose oneself in perception"='lgc'> = clear eye of the ="trms">world (="ppl">Schopenhauerian model of knowing in Doctor Strange movie, seeing the ="trms">world directly and leave entirely one's own ="trms">interests, the pre="trms">modern idea of ='strcls'>*perception='lgc'> = ="trms">presence='strcls'>*)



="ppl">Bergson (='lgc'>+ Cezanne) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deepest forms of perception are mixed and com="trms">posite

(in ="trms">Matter and ="trms">Memory) ="ppl">Bergson='lgc'>: establish a model of perception ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">routinized and reified forms of perceptual experience within western ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban and ="trms">scientific culture of the late 19th century

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]externality='lgc'> = dream of inhuman immediacy='lgc'>: a vision of ="trms">matter both immediate and instantaneous
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Lucy movie primordial and fundamental act of perception

="ppl">Bergson (='lgc'>+ Dewey's ideal of coordination)
(the role of the) ='strcls'>*body='lgc'>: reproduce in action the life of the mind='strcls'>*
(the role of the) ='strcls'>*mind='lgc'>: hindering the thought from being lost in dream, an organ of ‘attention to life’
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="trms">memory and perception ="trms">interpret each other
='strcls'>*="trms">memory coincides (diverge, ="trms">intersect) with the “="trms">present” perception='strcls'>*
='lgc'>{ ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]determine='lgc'>: the more habitual and repetitive one's perceptual ="trms">response to one's environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the less autonomy and freedom characterize that individual experience ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creativity='lgc'> = (zone of) indetermination

='lgc'>--again='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Bergson (disturbed by new arrangement of ="trms">spectacular ="trms">consumption posed as novelty within a mass ="trms">society ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> redundancy and habit ='lgc'>+ decay of traditional forms of collective ="trms">memory) his work is a ="trms">response to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•general standardization of experience
="lsts lst1">•automation of perceptual ="trms">response
(='lgc'><='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>-- typical problem of life-philosophers lebensphilosophie at the turn of the century reaction to the “intrusion of the mechanical”)

='strcls'>*preconditions of a free and autonomous subject='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ ='strcls'>*end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered (coherent) ="trms">system of meaning='strcls'>*

(weak evolutionary assumptions of ="ppl">Bergson's elaboration of) human subject (= the most developed organism)='lgc'> = potential (for indetermination)='lgc'> = escape from a ="trms">relationship of constraint and necessity in one's lived milieu ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal='lgc'>]


Helmholtz (research on physiological optics) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> غیر واقعی nonveridical status of vision (and perception) ='lgc'>~= there is no direct cor="trms">respondence between sense experience and objects in the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•uprooting='lgc'>: rationalization and ="trms">instrumentalization of senses (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technical prostheses)
="lsts lst1">•displacing='lgc'>: reterritorializing of perception

Helmholtz (='lgc'>~/= ="ppl">Bergson) committed to expanding and optimizing the productive functioning of ="trms">socioeconomic ="trms">world (of imperial Germany) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vision of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list industrialization (exchangeability, convertibility, etc.)

Helmholtz's ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physics
Helmholtz's ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">semiotics='lgc'>: re="trms">presentational and quasilogical order of signs


(Helmholtz ='lgc'>+) ="ppl">Bergson's attention='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. condition of relative motor arrest (Ribot)
="lstsrd">2. gives up the useful effect of ="trms">present perception
="lstsrd">3. backward movement of the mind

="ppl">Bergson's attention='lgc'>: a binding together of reality to ward off both perceptual and psychic dis="trms">integration


endosmosis='lgc'>: process of remaking an object of perception

="ppl">Deleuze's attention='lgc'>: gives back to duration its true characteristic... a very special coexistence (='lgc'>=/= succession), a ="trms">simultaneity of fluxes, in which the body was always implicated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “freedom='lgc'> = awareness of that coexistence”,


“reality function”
(psychic='lgc'>+) sensorimotor grounding in the reality

in early 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clinic designation of a condition called “the feeling of unreality” ='lgc'>: fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of an apperceptive attention ='lgc'>: when ="trms">present impressions do not link up with ="trms">memory as="trms">sociation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> sense of unfamiliarity of the ="trms">present objects


='strcls'>*(inconsistent and ="trms">anxious treatment of) ="ppl">Bergson sketching out the marvels of a multidimensional perception='strcls'>* (capable of apprehending and creativity engaging the immanence of the ="trms">past and ="trms">present) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- fantast of artistic research
='lgc'>='lgc'>---="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for ="ppl">Bergson attention is one that does not waver, oscillate, or drift in and out of focus ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Avital ="trms">drug='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> his privileging of fusion, ="trms">interpenetration, and continuity does not apply to borderline states='lgc'>: insanity, dreaming, etc. piercing forms of nonspatialized experiences='lgc'>: dreamwork, trance, forms of hypnagogic visions (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> powerful penetration of the ="trms">present by ="trms">memory)

="ppl">Bergson's indetermination='lgc'>: a human attentive concentration, an abortion that would never lose its conscious connection to the willed activity of the body (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- fantasy of wakeful critical subject) ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Crary's well argued) indetermination encompassing fluctuations in and out of trancelike states in which disas="trms">sociated ="trms">phenomenal might occur


="ppl">Bergson's work is typical of his period ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***great fear of perceptual behavior that is either passive or automatic='strcls'>***
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="trms">historically='lgc'>='lgc'>--> construction of various forms of automatic perception in cinema, recorded sound, and other ="trms">technological attachments ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='thdf'>the idea of ='strcls'>**premade images ="trms">consumed passively='strcls'>** (...depreciation of experience when individual ="trms">memory images are stiffened into ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-made things)

(for ="ppl">Bergson, Janet, ="frds scrmbld">Foad, and many others='lgc'>:) automatic behavior ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dissolution of ego boundaries (in which the individual will cease to exert itself), contraction of personality, scattering of the self

drift
reverie
trance
dream

='strcls'>**="ppl">Bergson's work='lgc'> = re="trms">fashioning of the ="ppl">Rousseauian conviction of the truth and authenticity of (inner) subjective experience, without grasping how that experience is determined by forces external to the subject='strcls'>**
='lgc'>--trying='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to overcome the degradation and devaluation of experience within a ="trms">modernizing culture founded on amnesia and obsolescence='lgc'> = collaptof auratic perception

='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Bergson and others could not see the ways in which ='strcls'>*****capitalism itself was a nonfixable duree, a nonre="trms">presentable variation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an endless chain of dislocations and destabilizations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> its own virtual realm of novelty='strcls'>*****

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(Cezanne and ="frds">Sina's attraction to) rock motifs
various spl="trms">intering and dispersal of rocks
="trms">intermingled with r[...]